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OBITUAK1ES, FOREIGN. (GREY HAWEIS.) 



tion of New Caledonia. Not alone in that did he 

 offend his official superiors, but he disobeyed every 

 order that came when he considered it unwise or 

 inexpedient. A constitution that was sent to him 

 to be promulgated he boldly set aside, declaring it 

 suspended. He insisted on carrying out the prin- 

 ciple that the lands of the Australasian colonies 

 were the heritage of the British people and advo- 

 cated allotments to cultivators only and the extreme 

 claims of labor. When he returned to England 

 the Duke of Newcastle, who was Secretary for the 

 Colonies, refused to see him ; yet he was impelled 

 shortly afterward to make use of his genius for 

 organization and conciliation for the purpose of 

 extricating Cape Colony from its plight of dis- 

 order and bankruptcy. Delegates of the colonists 

 had obtained representative institutions, but had 

 left England sore and dissatisfied with the result 

 of their mission. There were serious troubles with 

 the Boers, and the Kaffirs were on the point of 

 revolting. The Colonial Secretary, to avoid having 

 his orders again set at naught, gave Sir George Grey 

 unlimited discretion. When the new Governor 

 arrived he granted to the Hottentots the rights that 

 had been refused in London, came to an under- 

 standing with the discontented Boers, reorganized 

 the finances and the civil service, and then had to 

 face a general rebellion of the Kaffirs. The com- 

 manding general proposed to concentrate on an 

 inner line of defense, but Sir George Grey ordered 

 the feeble outposts to hold their ground, and in a 

 short time he broke up the formidable confederacy 

 and had the Kaffirs at his mercy. To save them 

 from famine he distributed food among them, set- 

 tled many thousands on lands in the colony, and 

 employed the rest on public works. The Indian 

 mutiny then broke out, and he took the bold initia- 

 tive of directing transports bound for China to go 

 to Calcutta, as well as dispatching troops, guns, and 

 money from the Cape to India, leaving himself 

 almost helpless against a renewal of the dangers 

 scarcely past. In the next two years he thought 

 out and freely enunciated the scheme of South 

 African Confederation without caring about the 

 policy of the British Government, and this led to 

 nis summary recall by the Conservative Colonial 

 Secretary. Before he arrived in England the Duke 

 of Newcastle had returned to the Colonial Office 

 and had reappointed him, but when he again took 

 up the reins of power at the Cape he found his 

 authority and prestige weakened. The native chiefs 

 were grateful and devoted, but his hopes of recon- 

 ciling the interests of the Dutch and the English 

 and welding them into a nation were blasted. His 

 second term of office was marked by the construc- 

 tion of railroads and the founding" of benevolent 

 institutions. When he left the colony he gave to 

 it his magnificent library and collection of manu- 

 scripts. He was appointed Governor of New Zea- 

 land once more in 1861. The Maoris were angry at 

 the flagrant breaches of the treaty, and wholesale 

 robbery of their lands, and through the laxness of 

 the administration they had provided themselves 

 with arms. Sir George Grey insisted that the Gov- 

 ernment should frankly acknowledge the wrongs it 

 had committed and make reparation to the natives. 

 The Cabinet hesitated to humiliate itself in this 

 way until the war broke out. The Governor, when 

 he was empowered to offer full amends to the in- 

 jured natives, went among them, won over some of 

 the chiefs to fight devotedly on his side, and with 

 his native army carried without the loss of a man 

 the stockades which the commander of the British 

 troops was afraid to assail. The Maoris simply 

 would not fight against their kindred after they 

 knew of the promises that the Governor held out to 

 them. After having pacified the island a second 



time Sir George Grey retired in 1868. He had a 

 promise of the governor-generalship of Canada, the 

 stepping-stone to the viceroyalty of India, before 

 he threw himself into the breach to save New Zea- 

 land, and thus placed himself out of the line of pro- 

 motion. After returning to England he offered 

 himself as a candidate for Parliament to the elect- 

 ors of Newark, but his extreme radical views on 

 imperial and colonial questions alarmed Mr. Glad- 

 stone and Lord Granville, who refused to accept 

 him as the party candidate. He proposed, in par- 

 ticular, a scheme for giving home rule to Ireland 

 that differed little from Mr. Gladstone's own meas- 

 ure offered in 1886. Sir George Grey withdrew his 

 candidature rather than give the seat to a Tory, and 

 after a little while returned to New Zealand. In 

 1874 he threw himself into the political contest that 

 was waged in the colony for the preservation of the 

 provincial legislative bodies and autonomous insti- 

 tutions that were mainly his own creation. When 

 his party came into power he was called upon to 

 take the premiership. In this new and singular 

 position he found freer scope than ever for his ex- 

 tremely democratic ideas. He devoted his efforts 

 to strengthening the rule of the people, and carried 

 through a measure practically conferring manhood 

 suffrage and establishing the principle of one man 

 one vote. In combating monopolies in every form 

 he was a pioneer and was less successful, and in his 

 proposals for the radical reform of taxation, the 

 election of the Governor by the colonists, the na- 

 tionalization of coal mines, and other radical inno- 

 vations he sustained a series of mortifying defeats 

 entailing his resignation. He continued for several 

 years to sit in the Assembly. In 1890 he represented 

 New Zealand in the Federal Convention of Austra- 

 lasia at Sydney. He made a tour through Australia, 

 and was received by the workingmen everywhere 

 with enthusiastic demonstrations, to which he re- 

 sponded with expressions of ardent sympathy for 

 the claims of labor and hope that its paramount 

 rights would be secured through universal suffrage. 

 After this he lived among his books in the luxuri- 

 ous paradise that he had created on the island of 

 Kawau until 1895, when, bestowing his valuable 

 library as a gift on the citizens of Wellington, he 

 took up his abode in England, having in 1894 been 

 appointed a member of the Privy Council. He was 

 knighted in 1848. 



Griirney, Alfred, an English clergyman, born in 

 1843 ; died at Roehampton, Nov. 28, 1898. He was 

 educated at Exeter College. Oxford, took orders in 

 1873, and from 1879 till shortly before his dcatli 

 was vicar of St. Barnabas's Church, Pimlico, Lon- 

 don. He was a pronounced High Churchman, but 

 his " Our Catholic Inheritance in the Larger Hope " 

 (1888) is an extremely liberal treatment of the 

 theme. His other works are "The Vision of the 

 Eucharist and Other Poems" (1882); " Day 

 Dreams " ; and " A Christmas Faggot " (1884). 



Haweis, Mrs. Mary Eliza (Joy), an English 

 artist and author, born in London, Feb. 21. 1S.VJ: 

 died there, Nov. 28, 1898. She was the daughter 

 of F. M. Joy, an artist. She studied art under his 

 direction, and exhibited her first picture in the 

 Royal Academy at the age of sixteen. In 1876 she 

 married the Rev. H. R. Haweis, a popular English 

 writer. She continued to practice her art after 

 marriage, and was the cover designer and illus- 

 trator of all of her own and her husband's books.. 

 Her published works include "Chaucer for Chil- 

 dren, which quickly passed through several edi- 

 tions (1876); "The Art of Beauty" (1877): "The 

 Art of Dress" (1879); " Chaucer for Schools "(1880) 

 "The Art of Decoration" (1881): '-Beautiful. 

 Houses" (1882); "Chaucer's Beads," a birthday 

 book, (1884) ; " Rus in Urbe " (1886) ; " Tales from. 



